 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown and preferred the retirement...and just less than sage? All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less than all thou hast forborne to be." 14. FEMALE PATRIOTISM. — Madame Roland.... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1837 - 242 pages
...retirement of domestick life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created ! 9. How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage 1 All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less, than all thou hast forborne to be. 10. Such,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...crowns his-career, and banish70 es all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the...of a land he might be almost said to have created! Happy, proud America! The lightnings of heaVen 75 yielded to your philosophy! The temptations of earth... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 pages
...fame ; Beneath whose sword Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that the mob might reigk How shall we rank thee upon glory's page ? Thou more than soldier, arid just less thrji sage ! Too form'd for peace to act a conqueror's part. Too train'd in camps to... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...crowns his career, and banish70 es all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the...of a land he might be almost said to have created! Happy, proud America! The lightnings of heaven 75 yielded to your philosophy ! The temptations of earth... | |
 | John Philpot Curran, Robert Emmet, Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1840 - 562 pages
...act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the...page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage; AH thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less than all thou hast forborne to be!" Such, Sir,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1840 - 394 pages
...; Beneath whose sword Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that their mob might reign. How shall we rank thee upon glory's page ? Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ! Of peace too fond to act the conqueror's part, Too long in camps to learn a statesman's art, Nature... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1840 - 414 pages
...; Beneath whose sword Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that their mob might reign. How shall we rank thee upon glory's page ? Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ! Of peace too fond to act the conqueror's part, Too long in camps to learn a statesman's art, Nature... | |
 | Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1840 - 398 pages
...; Beneath whose sword Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that their mob might reign. How shall we rank thee upon glory's page ? Thou more than soldier and just less than sage I Of peace too fond to act the conqueror's part, Too long in camps to learn a statesman's art, Nature... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a kind he might be almost said to have created 1 '' How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, j , . Thou... | |
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But the last glorious act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated an hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said... 
